My 6x great grandfather Thomas Stow was born in Concord Ma. on 25Feb 1699 to Nathaniel Stow Jr and Ruth Merriam. On 17Jan 1725 he and Ann Wetherbee were married in Stow, Ma. I knew he died in Grafton, Ma. on 6Sep 1746, and that I am descended from his son Samuel. Other than those facts I knew little more about Thomas Stow, except that he was a housewright.
I did a Google search and found this petition:
ORDER IMPOWERING MOSES HAVEN AND WIFE TO SELL PART OF AN
ESTATE AND MAKING PROVISION IN REGARD TO THE PROCEEDS.
A Petition of Moses Haven and Anne his Wife, John Stow, Joseph Stow, David Stow, Samuel Stow, and Ephraim Sherman Guardian to Timothy Stow; the said John, Joseph, David, Samuel and Timothy being Children of Thomas Stow, late of Grafton deceased, Setting forth, That the said Thomas Stow died seized of certain Lands and Buildings situate partly in Sutton and partly
in Grafton one third part whereof was set off to the said Anne, formerly Wife to the said Thomas Stow; That she being again married, and living remote, can improve it only by leasing of it out,
which she finds attended with sundry inconveniences, besides which the Buildings and fences are going to decay And Praying that they or some of them may be impowered to sell the said Thirds set off as aforesaid, the said Anne to have the Income of the produce of such Sale during her natural Life, and the heirs of the said Thomas Stow, to receive the principal at her Death,
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Ordered That the Prayer of the within Petition be granted, and that moses Haven and his Wife be, and are hereby fully Authorized and impowered to make Sale of her Thirds of the Estate within mentioned for the most it will fetch, and to execute a good deed or deeds of the same, they observing the directions in the Law for the Sale of Real Estates and giving sufficient caution to the Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester, that the Principal Sum arising by said Sale shall at her decease be well and truly paid to the Children of Thomas Stow deceased, her former husband or their legal Representatives according to their respective Interest. [Passed October 27 1764.] -p562
Legislative Records of the Council xxv., 294
House Journal p116, Province Laws 11., 151, chap.10
The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: To which are Prefixed the Charters of the Province. With Historical and Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix. Published Under Chapter 87 of the Resolves of the General Court of the Commonwealth for the Year 1867, John Henry Clifford Wright & Potter, printers to the state, Boston, Ma. 1910
The connection with the town of Sutton was new to me. This caused me to search the Early Vital Records of Massachusetts website. I found baptism years for three children of Thomas and Anne Stow in Sutton:
Lidia 1732
John 1732
Joseph 1734
There were births of four more sons in Stow:
David 10May 1736
Nathaniel 28Sep 1739
Samuel 17Apr 1742
Timothy 21Oct 1745
I'm hoping that FamilySearch releases more of the Worcester County, Ma. probate files. They haven't gotten to the files for names beginning with "S" yet, and when they do, I'll be looking for
the one for Thomas Stow.
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